Podcast Corner: Sin Scéal Eile aims to create audio archive of 2026
Sex predator Eamonn Cooke is the subject of the Pirate Predator podcast. Picture: Collins
is the latest investigative series from the RTÉ Documentary On One team.
Following any number of acclaimed shows (take your pick: etc), it examines Eamonn Cooke, perhaps Ireland’s most prolific child sexual abuser. The former DJ had a criminal history stretching from the 1950s to a little over 10 years ago, according to host and narrator Peter Mulryan.
He was a cult-like figure in what was one of Ireland’s coolest underground scenes until the late 1980s, a host on the pirate radio station Radio Dublin, filling a void for disillusioned youth.
“Funny enough, Jimmy Savile came to Radio Dublin at one stage, he actually came into the station, so there’s definitely some kind of connection there,” says one contributor in the trailer.
Mulryan says this is a story he’s waited over 20 years to tell and that the series has uncovered new victims and, for the first time, Cooke’s own children speak out.
begins on May 12, with episodes released weekly.
is an ambitious series from the acclaimed Irish photographer Ruth Medjber as she aims to meet and chat with 365 people in one year.
She’s a third of the way through, and talked with musicians, DJs, mammies, sports stars, shopkeepers, cosplayers, and all other kinds of people.
Medjber says the series is an archive of 2026 aiming to serve the ordinary people of Ireland. It’s a quick-paced project and Medjber admits she doesn’t have time to research the life and work of all the people in front of her. “I’m usually learning alongside the listener,” she says. Episodes clock in at less than 20 minutes, offering a snapshot of a person’s life.
Let's take a look at last week's episodes. “I really don’t think the world as we know it would exist without sticks,” says the storyteller Mark Ó Géaráin on Sunday.
“You really like your sticks!” laughs Medjber.
Sorcha Durham, a former member of the band Walking on Cars, says the end of the band was like a grieving process and that she had to find herself again. Half English and growing up in Kerry, Durham and Medjber ponder what it means to be Irish.
It’s an idea that crops up regularly — including earlier in the week as Medjber takes a stroll with Úna Harty, host of the podcast .
bids to capture not just voices, but a moment.
